Mr. Marcos González Sánchez, Founder of the Methodological Institute of Ecclesiastical State Law and professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid

Ms. Adoración Castro Jover, professor of Ecclesiastical State Law at the University of the Basque Country, the public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.

Awardees were presented with a replica of Tizona—the sword of the legendary Spanish hero Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid. Long a symbol of the honor and dignity of the knight who defends light against darkness, the sword represents the virtues of common sense, strength, moderation, and justice.

The National Church of Scientology of Spain presents religious freedom awards each year to individuals or institutions whose work has moved society forward in accomplishing freedom of religion or belief for all, in keeping with the Creed of the Church of Scientology, that “all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance.”